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Seeking Sanctuary: fleeing conflict in the Middle Ages
Jun 18, 2026
47m 53s
Coastline Special: Romans by the sea
Jun 11, 2026
30m 46s
The Neolithic Hall: Reconstructing History at Stonehenge
Jun 4, 2026
50m 59s
Berwick-on-Tweed: life on the border in the 16th century
May 28, 2026
39m 40s
Reinterpreting Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo
May 21, 2026
50m 16s
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| 6/18/26 |  Seeking Sanctuary: fleeing conflict in the Middle Ages | Throughout the ages, people have been forced to leave their homes due to conflict and instability and find refuge in another country - or a different part of their own country. In this episode of the English Heritage Podcast, host Amy Matthews sits down with English Heritage historian Dr Will Wyeth and Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Prof Bart Lambert to look at that phenomenon across the Middle Ages, in particular during the Wars of Independence in Scotland and the Hundred Years' Wars in France and the Low Countries. Together they discuss how during this period, refugees came from all social levels, from nobility, clergy and the political elite to the poor, especially women. This episode reveals the everyday realities of seeking safe haven in the medieval world and challenges the common assumption that medieval people rarely travelled far from home. Don’t forget to follow this podcast and leave a review if you love the show. Join English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/join/ Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first year of an annual membership. Use code POD20 at checkout.* Support our work: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/ The English Heritage Trust is a charity, no. 1140351, and a limited company, no. 07447221, registered in England and Wales. *Offer is available through the use of this code and valid for new memberships by annual Direct Debit only. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion, on life memberships or renewals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 47m 53s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | Coastline Special: Romans by the sea✨ | Roman historyEnglish coastline+3 | Dr Andrew RobertsDr Kathryn Bedford | — | RichboroughBritain+1 | Romansoysters+6 | English HeritagePOD20 | 30m 46s | |
| 6/4/26 |  The Neolithic Hall: Reconstructing History at Stonehenge✨ | Neolithic HallStonehenge+3 | — | — | Stonehenge | Neolithic HallStonehenge+5 | English HeritagePOD20 | 50m 59s | |
| 5/28/26 |  Berwick-on-Tweed: life on the border in the 16th century✨ | history16th century+3 | — | English Heritage Trust | Berwick-upon-TweedEngland+1 | Berwick-upon-Tweed16th century+3 | English HeritagePOD20 | 39m 40s | |
| 5/21/26 |  Reinterpreting Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo✨ | DunkirkOperation Dynamo+4 | Dr Kathryn BedfordYves Janssen+1 | Dunkirk 1940 Museum | Dover Castle | DunkirkOperation Dynamo+5 | — | 50m 16s | |
| 5/14/26 |  Northumberland and the Border Reivers✨ | Border ReiversAnglo-Scottish history+4 | Alistair MoffatAndrew Roberts | — | NorthumberlandAnglo-Scottish frontier | Border ReiversNorthumberland+5 | English HeritagePOD20 | 51m 19s | |
| 5/7/26 |  A history of natural history✨ | natural historyDavid Attenborough+4 | Dr Edwin RoseSabrina Villani | University of Leeds | — | natural historyDavid Attenborough+5 | English HeritagePOD20 | 39m 23s | |
| 4/30/26 |  Northumberland: the story of Norham Castle✨ | Norham CastleAnglo-Scottish relations+3 | Dr Will WyethJim Gibson | — | Norham CastleRiver Tweed+2 | Norham CastleRiver Tweed+3 | English HeritagePOD20 | 34m 15s | |
| 4/23/26 |  Windmills: restoring England’s working giants✨ | windmillsconservation+3 | Nick HolderJoseph James | Sibsey Trader Windmill | Lincolnshire | windmillsrestoration+3 | English HeritagePOD20 | 46m 35s | |
| 4/16/26 |  Northumberland: castles and the borderlands of power✨ | Anglo-Scottish borderNorman Conquest+5 | Will WyethProfessor Richard Oram | University of Stirling | Northumberland | NorthumberlandAnglo-Scottish border+6 | English HeritagePOD20 | 50m 20s | |
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| 4/9/26 |  Memories of flowers: a country house and its community✨ | country housecommunity+4 | Eleanor Matthews | — | Brodsworth Halllocal school | Brodsworth Hallflowers+4 | English HeritagePOD20 | 45m 54s | |
| 4/2/26 |  The bittersweet history of chocolate✨ | history of chocolateglobal trade+3 | Sam BiltonDr Andrew Hann | English Heritage Trust | Boer War | chocolatehistory+5 | English HeritagePOD20 | 50m 02s | |
| 3/26/26 |  The Partners: who were Seely and Paget?✨ | architectureArt Deco+3 | Dr Andrew HannDr Peter Forsaith | English Heritage TrustArt Deco | Eltham PalaceBritain | SeelyPaget+5 | English HeritagePOD20 | 49m 51s | |
| 3/19/26 |  The hidden history of women in construction✨ | women in constructionhidden history+3 | Dr Megan LeylandProfessor Linda Clarke | The English Heritage Trust | — | womenconstruction+4 | English HeritagePOD20 | 35m 03s | |
| 3/12/26 |  The secret world of portrait miniatures✨ | portrait miniatureshistory+3 | Lydia MillerPeter Moore | English Heritage Trust | — | portrait miniaturesart history+3 | English HeritagePOD20 | 47m 28s | |
| 3/5/26 |  The birth of medieval manuscripts✨ | medieval manuscriptsilluminated manuscripts+4 | Dr Susan HarrisonDr David Rundle | University of Kent | — | medieval booksparchment+3 | English HeritagePOD20 | 41m 57s | |
| 2/26/26 |  Poetry, maths and the Milky Way: the unsung genius of Thomas Wright✨ | Thomas WrightEnlightenment+4 | Simon WebbDr Andrew Hann | Milky Way | Durham | Thomas WrightEnlightenment+5 | English HeritagePOD20 | 49m 04s | |
| 2/19/26 |  Rethinking an Iron Age ‘war cemetery’✨ | Iron Agearchaeology+3 | — | English Heritage Trust | Maiden CastleDorset | Iron AgeMaiden Castle+5 | English HeritagePOD20 | 46m 28s | |
| 2/12/26 |  Love tokens from history | Forget roses and chocolates this Valentine’s Day. Lovers from the past set the bar high, with romantic poetry, locks of human hair, beautifully crafted silver and even a new city dedicated to a lost love. Join Amy Matthews and English Heritage historians and curators for a look at love tokens, secret messages and heartbreak memorials from our sites, to discover how people in the past flirted, mourned, adored and remembered. It turns out that whether it’s a sonnet, a statue or a sentimental keepsake, love has always been messy, meaningful and very human. Don’t forget to follow this podcast and leave a review if you love the show. Join English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/join/ Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first year of an annual membership. Use code POD20 at checkout.* Support our work: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/ The English Heritage Trust is a charity, no. 1140351, and a limited company, no. 07447221, registered in England and Wales. *Offer is available through the use of this code and valid for new memberships by annual Direct Debit only. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion, on life memberships or renewals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 28m 19s | ||||||
| 2/5/26 |  Before 1066: how England’s elites lived, ruled, and showed off | This isn’t a story of castles and conquest, but of carved pins, private churches, timber halls and even a king’s toilet. In this episode, we’re exploring early medieval England to uncover how wealth, status and authority were expressed before the Norman Conquest. Far from a sharp break in history, new archaeological research reveals deep continuities in how England’s elites lived, ruled...and showed off! Amy Matthews is joined by English Heritage curator Dr Will Wyeth and medieval archaeologist Dr Duncan Wright to explore a society in transition, where rising gentry built impressive residences, decorated themselves with finely crafted objects, controlled landscapes and resources, and used architecture to project power long before stone castles dominated the skyline. Don’t forget to follow this podcast and leave a review if you love the show. Join English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/join/ Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first year of an annual membership. Use code POD20 at checkout.* Support our work: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/ The English Heritage Trust is a charity, no. 1140351, and a limited company, no. 07447221, registered in England and Wales. *Offer is available through the use of this code and valid for new memberships by annual Direct Debit only. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion, on life memberships or renewals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 46m 38s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 |  A postie, an emperor, and a 2,000-year-old grain measure | What could a postal worker, a murdered emperor, and a Roman grain measure possibly have in common? In this episode of The English Heritage Podcast, Amy Matthews is joined by Dr Francis McIntosh to explore a remarkably well-preserved Roman modius, or grain measure. Discovered by pure chance in 1915 near Hadrian’s Wall, this object carries an extraordinary story. An official measuring vessel, the modius opens a window into everyday life on the empire’s northern frontier. It tells of Roman bureaucracy and standardisation – and a possible case of fraud. On top of that, a scratched-out inscription also reveals political assassination and the chilling practice of damnatio memoriae. Don’t forget to follow this podcast and leave a review if you love the show. Join English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/join/ Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first year of an annual membership. Use code POD20 at checkout.* Support our work: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/ The English Heritage Trust is a charity, no. 1140351, and a limited company, no. 07447221, registered in England and Wales. *Offer is available through the use of this code and valid for new memberships by annual Direct Debit only. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion, on life memberships or renewals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 35m 35s | ||||||
| 1/22/26 |  Falconry, fashion and threat: a history of people and birds | From Darwin’s pigeons to peregrines on Parliament, birds have always been more than background noise. They’ve shaped science, symbolism, status and the very landscapes we live in. In this episode, Amy chats with three passionate bird enthusiasts: English Heritage’s Dr Louise Crawley, head gardener and bird obsessive Anthony O’Rourke, and zoologist and broadcaster Megan McCubbin. Together, they explore our long, tangled relationship with birds: from Victorian taxidermy and medieval falconry to folklore, fashion and the fight for biodiversity today. Along the way, there are moon-flying woodcocks, pigeon-breeding experiments in a country kitchen, and a powerful reminder that heritage sites aren’t just windows into the past but vital refuges for wildlife right now. Don’t forget to follow this podcast and leave a review if you love the show. Join English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/join/ Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first year of an annual membership. Use code POD20 at checkout.* Support our work: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/ The English Heritage Trust is a charity, no. 1140351, and a limited company, no. 07447221, registered in England and Wales. *Offer is available through the use of this code and valid for new memberships by annual Direct Debit only. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion, on life memberships or renewals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 44m 21s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 |  Adventure and obsession: orchid hunting in the 1930s | From steamy jungles and boiling mud pools to a bathroom aboard a luxury yacht, this is a plant story like no other. Sir Stephen and Lady Virginia Courtauld weren’t just art deco tastemakers; they were globe-trotting orchid obsessives, chasing rare blooms across Southeast Asia in the 1930s and (legally!) bringing them home against the odds. Joined by English Heritage’s Dr Andrew Hann and gardener-researcher Hannah Pearson, Amy Matthews follows the Courtaulds’ trail through diaries, photographs and maps, uncovering a tale of privilege, passion and peril. Along the way, orchids are dealt, gifted, bombed, evacuated and lovingly preserved through war, displacement and decades of change. It’s a story of people and plants and how a collection of extraordinary flowers travelled the world and were conserved through conflict for the benefit of the world today Don’t forget to follow this podcast and leave a review if you love the show. Join English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/join/ Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first year of an annual membership. Use code POD20 at checkout.* Support our work: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/ The English Heritage Trust is a charity, no. 1140351, and a limited company, no. 07447221, registered in England and Wales. *Offer is available through the use of this code and valid for new memberships by annual Direct Debit only. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion, on life memberships or renewals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 39m 57s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 |  Dogs and devotion: faithful companions and their families | From one brown leather dog collar unfolds a story of a family that loved their dogs for generations. And the Thellussons of Brodsworth Hall weren’t the only grand family whose history we can understand more deeply through accounts of their four-legged friends. This time, Amy is joined by English Heritage historians Dr Megan Leyland and Eleanor Matthews to explore how dogs lived alongside people as companions, workers, status symbols and family members. From lapdogs and greyhounds to working dogs, canine hierarchies and pet cemeteries in the garden, we trace centuries of affection, symbolism and sentiment. We hear how dogs were fed, memorialised and painted into portraits that allow us to understand the values of the past today. Don’t forget to follow this podcast and leave a review if you love the show. Join English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/join/ Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first year of an annual membership. Use code POD20 at checkout.* Support our work: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/ The English Heritage Trust is a charity, no. 1140351, and a limited company, no. 07447221, registered in England and Wales. *Offer is available through the use of this code and valid for new memberships by annual Direct Debit only. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion, on life memberships or renewals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 46m 06s | ||||||
| 1/1/26 |  Vermeer: Double Vision | Two near-identical paintings. One great Dutch master. And a mystery that has spanned more than 350 years. In this episode of The English Heritage Podcast, Amy Matthews travels to Kenwood to explore “The Guitar Player”, Johannes Vermeer’s celebrated painting, and its striking counterpart from the Philadelphia Art Museum. Displayed side by side for the first time, these two works are inviting spirited debate from visitors, and cutting-edge research too. English Heritage’s Wendy Monkhouse, Ella Letort and Alice Tate-Harte take Amy through questions of authorship, technique, condition, and provenance. From pigment analysis and imaging technologies to the marks of time visible on canvas, this episode reveals how art history and science work together to interrogate one of the most intriguing puzzles in Vermeer scholarship. Look closely and decide for yourself: are these two paintings the work of the same hand or do their subtle differences tell another story? You can find out more about this collaboration with the National Gallery (London), the National Gallery of Art (Washington) and the Philadelphia Art Museum in the notes below. Episode Notes The scientific research on the Philadelphia painting was undertaken by: Dr. Kate Duffy (Senior Scientist) Dr. Aleksandra Popowich (Conservation Scientist) Mark Tucker (The Neubauer Family Director of Conservation), Philadelphia Art Museum In collaboration with: Dr. John Delaney (Senior Imaging Scientist) Dr. Kate Dooley (Imaging Scientist), National Gallery of Art, Washington The scientific research on the Kenwood painting was carried out by: Dr. Helen Howard (Senior Scientist) Dr. Marta Melchiorre Di Crescenzo (Senior Scientist), National Gallery, London In collaboration with: Dr. John Delaney (Senior Imaging Scientist) Dr. Kate Dooley (Imaging Scientist), National Gallery of Art, Washington Alice Tate-Harte (Paintings Conservator), English Heritage Curatorial research was carried out by: Dr. Jennifer Thompson (The Gloria and Jack Drosdick Curator of European Painting and Sculpture and Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection) Dr. Wendy Monkhouse (Senior Curator, English Heritage) Ella Letort (Curator, Kenwood House) You can find out more about the scientific research in this online article: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kenwood/history-stories-kenwood/guitar_player_vermeer/ Don’t forget to follow this podcast and leave a review if you love the show. Join English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/join/ Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first year of an annual membership. Use code POD20 at checkout.* Support our work: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/support-us/ The English Heritage Trust is a charity, no. 1140351, and a limited company, no. 07447221, registered in England and Wales. *Offer is available through the use of this code and valid for new memberships by annual Direct Debit only. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion, on life memberships or renewals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 35m 45s | ||||||
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9 placements across 9 markets.